Paperback, 576 pages
English language
Published May 18, 1997 by Westview Press.
The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956
An Experiment in Literary Investigation (Volume Three)
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The Gulag Archipelago is Solzhenitsyn's masterwork, a vast canvas of camps, prisons, transit centres and secret police, of informers and spies and interrogators and also of heroism, a Stalinist anti-world at the heart of the Soviet Union where the key to survival lay not in hope but in despair. The work is based on the testimony of some two hundred survivors, and on the recollection of Solzhenitsyn's own eleven years in labour camps and exile. It is both a thoroughly researched document and a feat of literary and imaginative power. This edition has been abridged into one volume at the author's wish and with his full co-operation.
Subjects
- European history: from c 1900 -
- Political imprisonment
- Inter-war period, 1918-1939
- Postwar period, 1945 to c 2000
- Second World War, 1939-1945
- Literature - Classics / Criticism
- Europe - Russia & the Former Soviet Union
- Soviet Union
- Literary Criticism
- Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe)
- Penology
- Concentration camps
- GULag NKVD
- Political prisoners
- Prisons